The geometry of large faults has been the focus of recent research, which has found that the big earthquakes occur where faults are mostly flat. …read more Source:: Science
Month: November 2016
Upward mobility boosts immunity in monkeys
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•The richest and poorest Americans differ in life expectancy by more than a decade. Glaring health inequalities across the socioeconomic spectrum are often attributed to access to medical care and …read more Source:: Science
Fuel cells: For platinum catalysts, tiny squeeze gives big boost in performance
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•Squeezing a platinum catalyst a fraction of a nanometer nearly doubles its catalytic activity, say researchers, a finding that could lead to better fuel cells and other clean energy technologies. …read more Source:: Science
Depression in young people affects the stomach, anxiety the skin
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•Mental disorders and physical diseases frequently go hand in hand. For the first time, psychologists have identified temporal patterns in young people: arthritis and diseases of the digestive system are …read more Source:: Science
Endangered Australasian marsupials are ancient survivors of climate change
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•An international team of researchers has analyzed fossils and DNA from living and recently extinct species to show that conservation sensitive Australasian marsupials are much older than previously thought. …read more Source:: Science
Fedora 25 Linux arrives with Wayland display support
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•Linux desktop users have been waiting for Wayland, the X server display replacement, for years. It’s finally here. …read more Source:: Linux
Students have trouble judging the credibility of information online, researchers find
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•Education scholars say youth are duped by sponsored content and don’t always recognize political bias of social messages. …read more Source:: Science
Huge reduction in African dust plume impacted climate 11,000 years ago
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•Scientists have discovered a huge reduction in an African dust plume that led to more Saharan monsoons 11,000 years ago, suggests a new report. …read more Source:: Science
Nylon fibers made to flex like muscles
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•Engineers have found a simple and inexpensive new approach to creating bending artificial muscle fibers. Artificial muscles — materials that contract and expand somewhat like muscle fibers do — can …read more Source:: Science
Researchers put mouse embryos in suspended animation
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•Researchers have found a way to pause the development of early mouse embryos for up to a month in the lab, a finding with potential implications for assisted reproduction, regenerative …read more Source:: Science